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System-wide Sepsis Improvement Implementation University of North Carolina

When University of North Carolina Hospitals looked carefully at mortality in 2014, failure to rescue rose to the top as a key issue, and patients with sepsis were a key population, with 45 percent of inpatient deaths associated with a sepsis diagnosis. In a bid to reduce raw mortality at UNC Hospitals by 10 percent by June 2016, the system is developing a system-wide sepsis improvement project, beginning in the UNC Children’s Hospital.